Surprising neuroscience discoveries have revealed essential keys for healing traumatic memories that are changing the way therapists treat trauma. In this workshop, you’ll get up to date on these exciting brain science discoveries and learn how to apply them. In addition, you’ll learn a simple 5-step protocol for reprocessing traumatic memories that all effective trauma therapies have in common and how to adapt it based on your client’s needs.

More important, we’ll discuss the art of trauma therapy, which lies in the therapist’s ability to create an attuned, synergistic relationship with each client. You’ll learn how to connect with each of the 4-attchment styles and get a variety of creative tools you can use right away.

Objectives:

• Describe how emotional trauma is processed in the brain.
• Describe the recent neuroscience discoveries regarding memory reconsolidation and its implications for treating trauma.
• List the 5-steps that all evidence-based trauma therapies have in common.
• Name the 4 types of attachment styles.